Ice-cream tongs



H. H. HASSLER.

ICE CREAM TONGS! APPLICATION FILED JULY 29,1921.

1,431,792. Patented 0c1.10,1922;

Patented Get 10, 1922.

lABLWZ HUG-H H. HASSLER, OF MONTGOMERY CITY, MISSOURI.

ICE-CREAM TONGS.

Application filed July 29, 1921. Serial No. 488,401.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that HUGH H. HASSLER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Montgomery City, in the county of Montgomery and State of Missouri, has invented new and useful Improvements in Ice-Cream Tongs, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and efficient means for lifting and carrying ice cream and other cans of relatively large capacity provided as inthe ordinary practice with outstanding or exterior beads near their upper edges, such cans ordinarily being of the cylindrical form, and having no handles, and are usually inconvenient to carry not only by reason of their shape, size and weight but because of the temperature of the contained material, when the attempt is made to grasp the same by pressure of the hands against the side walls; and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanyingdrawlngs, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a carrying device embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a side view of the same applied in the operative position to a can of the ice cream containing type.

Figure 3 is a detail view of one of the aws.

J The implement consists of a handle having a straight cross sectionally flat grip portion 10 formed of a bar of metal which is reduced toward its extremities and is bent downward to form substantially parallel arms 11 terminating in jaws 12 of which the lower edges are inturned and concaved' on curved lines to form segmental bearing edges 13, the jaws having side bracing webs 1.4- for affording stiffness thereto.

The bearing edges are adapted for arrangement in contact with the side surfaces of a can or similar cylindrical receptacle l5 beneath the outstanding stiffening web 16 thereof, whereupon by grasping the gri portion 10 the receptacle may be lifted and carried with comparative convenience to the operator. The tendency of the straight grip portion 10 to flex or bend upwardly at its center due to the weight imposed by the can and its contents upon the jaws which are connected with the ends of the grip, serves to force the jaws inward and thereby hold them in substantial engaging relation with the side surfaces of the receptacle beneath the outwardly projecting rib 16.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is A carrying implement for ice cream cans having a substantially straight grip portion provided at its extremities with downturned substantially parallel arms terminating in inturned jaws for engagement with the side surfaces of the receptacle beneath a stiffening outwardly projecting rib thereof, said jaws having inwardly directed segmentally concaved bearing edges and lateral bracing webs.

In testimony whereof he afiixes his signature. J

HUGH H. HASSLER. 

